The woman is being held at Coolock Garda Station while a male suspect is also in custody in Clontarf after his arrest at his home on the Louth/Meath border.
The glamorous woman was arrested in top secret garda raids yesterday morning along with a criminal aged in his 40s who is suspected of directing Lawlor’s criminal activities before he was shot dead in Belfast.
It is understood that information gathered by gardai on the EncroChat network has provided enough evidence to arrest the suspects who are believed to have intimate knowledge of the deadly Drogheda feud that claimed four lives.
Notorious hitman Robbie Lawlor
News in 90 Seconds – Thursday, November 6
The woman is being held at Coolock Garda Station while the male suspect is in custody in Clontarf after his arrest at his home on the Louth/Meath border.
They can be held for up to a week before a decision is made to release or charge them.
The arrests conducted by the Garda National Bureau of Criminal Investigation (GNBCI) and interviews carried out by their detectives are described as “very sensitive.”
When contacted for a comment on the matter, the Garda Press Office said: “An Garda Siochana has arrested two persons in relation to alleged organised crime offences.
“Both persons are detained in garda stations in the Dublin region under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act.
“An Garda Siochana has no further comment at this time.”
Robbie Lawlor
The woman at the centre of this organised crime investigation has been under death threat because of her relationship with Lawlor who was murdered in 2020 under the orders of gangland boss ‘Mr Big’ in a complex criminal conspiracy involving multiple gangs.
The Sunday World previously revealed that she received a sinister letter after Lawlor was killed in Belfast in April 2020 and warned that her clandestine affair was known about by his rivals.
Details of a late-night attempt to kill him at her home on a night leading up to his assassination was also in the letter along with the time and date a security light at her property had gone off forcing a gunman to flee.
The ‘affair’ between Lawlor and the legal professional had raised eyebrows months previous when he had left flowers on her car near a courthouse.
When gardaí approached her fearing the gesture was a threat, she’d giggled and blushed.
Retired Chief Superintendent Christy Mangan was so concerned about the relationship that he had written to then Garda Commissioner Drew Harris to raise a flag about the type of business she was doing in Louth area.
At the time Lawlor was the chief suspect for the gruesome murder of Keane Mulready Woods – a crime that caused national shock and international headlines when it emerged that the child had been dismembered and some of his body parts brought to north Dublin.
The male suspect arrested yesterday is closely connected to a number of other Dublin criminals who were involved in this sick conspiracy.
However it is understood that he was not being specifically questioned about that murder case.
The 47-year-old originally from north Dublin is considered to have been the main player that started the vicious Drogheda drugs feud against the Maguire faction.
Robbie Lawlor was caught on CCTV at his home shortly after the 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death and his body chopped up.
He was best friends with drug trafficker Richie Carberry who was shot dead by the opposing faction – the Maguire/Cornelius Price crew – in November 2019 – a case that remains unsolved.
The secretive gangster has been in control of more than 30 associates of the anti-Maguire mob involved in the deadly Drogheda feud.
Gang boss Richie Carberry
His most serious conviction was a number of years ago when he targeted a Drogheda man over an alleged multi-thousand euro drug debt.
The victim’s car was smashed up along with property and the anti-Maguire mob boss later received a suspended sentence over the crime.
His house has also been searched for firearms in the past although only a gun, which he legally held, was recovered along with ammo.
Detectives in Drogheda identified him as the leader of the gang under Operation Stratus, the anti-feud initiative launched by gardai in the town that has seen an end to the vicious feuding in the locality.
